> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question. I neglected to mention in my previous post there is currently > no way to embed Swing components in a Pivot app. However, you might be able > to wrap a JTextPane in a custom Pivot component and delegate paint() calls to > it. Alternatively, there may be some lower-level Swing text rendering APIs > you could delegate to and bypass JTextPane altogether. > > OK, one last (probably obvious) question: Why might flying saucer work > better with Pivot? I assume that it is not based on Swing? Does it use SWT > or something else that plays well with Pivot? Again, I apologize for the > basic questions, I have almost no Java GUI experience.
Like Swing, Pivot uses Java2D for rendering. However, Pivot doesn't doesn't depend on or extend Swing, so it's not especially straightforward to drop a Swing component into a Pivot app. I haven't looked into Flying Saucer in any great detail, but I imagine that it renders directly to Java2D, which would make it a lot easier to embed in a Pivot app. We did something similar with JFreeChart: http://code.google.com/p/pivot-jfree/ We can't include JFreeChart in the Pivot distribution for the same reason we can't have a dependency on Flying Saucer. However, it would be possible to write a bridge library to Flying Saucer similar to what we did for JFreeChart...that is definitely worth considering. G
